Schedule | Marxist Criticism & the Frankfurt School

The Marxist Criticism and Frankfurt School seminar will be held on Saturday, 30 January 2016, in 19 George Square.

TimeEvent
0900 - 0930Welcome with tea & coffee
0930 - 1100Introductory lecture
• Historical Materialism and the Literary Imagination
• The Politics of the Literary Text
• The Role of the Critic
1100 - 1130Coffee break
1130 - 1300Key concepts and texts
What does Culture do? Culture and Economics
• Discussion of Core Reading and Questions
• Participant Group Presentation
• New Directions Presentation (San Martin): ‘Necessity and agency in historical materialism’
• Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1300 - 1400Lunch
1400 - 1500Key concepts and texts
Where’s your Ideology? Ideology and Imagination
• Discussion of Core Reading and Questions
• Participant Group Presentation
• New Directions Presentation (Di Sotto): ‘Seeing, knowing, acting: the place of trauma in neoliberal ideology’
• Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1500 - 1530Coffee break
1530 - 1700Key concepts and texts
When is Utopia? Utopia and Revolution
• Discussion of Core Reading and Questions
• Participant Group Presentation
• New Directions Presentation (Leveque): ‘Aesthetics, Intellectuals, and Elites: the “Corporatism of the Universal” for writers and readers.’
• Individual presentations on research followed by group discussion
1700 - 1730Summary discussion and feedback